Leukemia

October 1997, Volume 11, Issue 10
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Review

The Charlotte Friend Memorial Lecture. The role of hematopoietic growth factors in the development and suppression of myeloid leukemias 1599
D Metcalf
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Rapid Communication

Internal tandem duplication of the FLT3 gene is preferentially seen in acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome among various hematological malignancies. A study on a large series of patients and cell lines 1605
S Yokota, H Kiyoi, M Nakao, T Iwai, S Misawa, T Okuda, Y Sonoda, T Abe, K Kahsima, Y Matsuo & T Naoe
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Original Manuscripts, Therapy

Long-term follow-up results of alpha-interferon-based regimens in patients with late chronic phase chronic myelogenous leukemia 1610
S Sacchi, HM Kantarjian, S O’Brien, M Beran, C Koller, S Pierce, S Kornblau, E Estey, MJ Keating & M Talpaz
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Results of decitabine therapy in the accelerated and blastic phases of chronic myelogenous leukemia 1617
HM Kantarjian, SM O’Brien, M Keating, M Beran, E Estey, S Giralt, S Kornblau, MB Rios, D de Vos & M Talpaz
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Treatment of neutropenia-related fungal infections with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor-elicited white blood cell transfusions: a pilot study 1621
MC Dignani, EJ Anaissie, JP Hester, S O’Brien, SE Vartivarian, JH Rex, H Kantarjian, DB Jendiroba, B Lichtiger, BS Andersson & EJ Freireich
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Fludarabine and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia 1631
S O’Brien, H Kantarjian, M Beran, C Koller, M Talpaz, S Lerner & MJ Keating
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Etiopathogeny And Pathogenesis Of Malignant Blood

Homozygous deletions at 9p21 in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia detected by microsatellite analysis 1636
S Takeuchi, M Koike, T Seriu, CR Bartram, J Slater, S Park, I Miyoshi & HP Koeffler
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Myeloproliferative disease and myelodysplastic syndrome induced by transplantation of bone marrow cells expressing mutant p53 1641
Y Shounan, K MacKenzie, A Dolnikov, M Miller & G Symonds
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Low incidence of myelodysplastic syndrome following transplantation using autologous non-cryopreserved bone marrow 1650
PRA Taylor, GH Jackson, AL Lennard, PJ Hamilton & SJ Proctor
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High risk of therapy-related leukemia after BEAM chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplantation for previously treated lymphomas is mainly related to primary chemotherapy and not to the BEAM-transplantation procedure 1654
J Pedersen-Bjergaard, M Pedersen, J Myhre & C Geisler
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Association between increased body mass index and a diagnosis of acute promyelocytic leukemia in patients with acute myeloid leukemia 1661
E Estey, P Thall, H Kantarjian, S Pierce, S Kornblau & M Keating
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Sensitivity And Resistance To Therapy

Inhibition of caspase proteases by CrmA enhances the resistance of human leukemic cells to multiple chemotherapeutic agents 1665
K Antoku, Z Liu & DE Johnson
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Tumor Suppressor Genes, Signal Transduction And Biology

Inhibition of growth of human leukemia cell lines by retrovirally expressed wild-type p16INK4A 1673
AF Gombart, R Yang, MJ Campbell, JD Berman & HP Koeffler
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Telomerase activity during the cell cycle and in gamma-irradiated hematopoietic cells 1681
F Leteurtre, X Li, E Gluckman & ED Carosella
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Quantitative analysis of Op18 phosphorylation in childhood acute leukemia 1690
R Melhem, N Hailat, R Kuick & SM Hanash
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Molecular analysis of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors in human leukemias 1696
S Hayette, X Thomas, Y Bertrand, I Tigaud, M Callanan, A Thiebaut, C Charrin, E Archimbaud, J-P Magaud & R Rimokh
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Biology Of Growth Factors And Cytokines

Flow cytometry measurement of GM-CSF receptors in acute leukemic blasts, and normal hemopoietic cells 1700
F Lanza, B Castagnari, G Rigolin, S Moretti, A Latorraca, L Ferrari, A Bardi & G Castoldi
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Differential effects of retroviral long terminal repeats on interleukin-3 gene expression and autocrine transformation 1711
X-Y Wang & JA McCubrey
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In vitro effects of IL-12 and IL-2 on NK cells, cytokine release and clonogenic activity in myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) 1726
B Sarina, A Cortelezzi, C Cattaneo, M Pomati, I Silvestris, M Di Stefano, D Lambertenghi-Deliliers, C Hu, M Monza & AT Maiolo
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Minimal Residual Disease

Molecular detection of minimal residual disease in adult and childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia reveals differences in treatment response 1732
L Foroni, LA Coyle, M Papaioannou, JC Yaxley, MF Cole Sinclair, JS Chim, P Cannell, LM Secker-Walker, AB Mehta, HG Prentice & AV Hoffbrand
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Detection of minimal disease using rearranged immunoglobulin heavy chain genes from intermediate- and high-grade malignant B cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma 1742
N van Belzen, PE Hupkes, D Doekharan, M Hoogeveen-Westerveld, LCJ Dorssers & MB van’t Veer
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Stromal Cell Biology

The role of soluble growth factors in inducing transient growth and clonal extinction of stroma cell dependent erythroblastic leukemia cells 1753
K Itoh, J Friel, C Laker, W Zeller, U Just, S Bittner, RJB Nibbs, PR Harrison, S-I Nishikawa, KJ Mori & W Ostertag
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Cell Biology

Hypersensitivity of bcr-abl-positive progenitors to hyperthermia in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia 1762
SFT Thijsen, JW van Oostveen, GJ Schuurhuis, AP Theijsmeijer, CBM Oudejans, IJ van Wijk, MMAC Langenhuijsen & GJ Ossenkoppele
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Animal Models

Comparison of the lymphoid toxicities of mitobronitol and busulphan in mice: reduced B cell toxicity and improved thymic recovery as possible contributors to the reduced risk for complications following BMT with mitobronitol preconditioning 1769
J Szebeni, K Barna, F Uher, J Milosevits, K Pálóczi, D Gaál, GG Petrányi & E Kelemen
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Brief Communications

A single course of remission reinduction chemotherapy for acute myelogenous leukemia relapsing after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation is complicated by graft-versus-host disease and followed by sustained complete remission 1775
P Vandenberghe, GEG Verhoef, MP Emonds, H Demuynck, P Zachée, C De Wolf-Peeters, R Decorte, JJ Cassiman & MA Boogaerts
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Expression of interleukin-6 receptors by pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells with the t(4;11) translocation: a possible target for therapy with recombinant IL6-Pseudomonas exotoxin 1779
L Gu, M Zhou, I Jurickova, AM Yeager, RJ Kreitman, CN Phillips & HW Findley
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Biotechnology Methods Section (Bts) Bts Technical

Rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE) improves the PCR-based isolation of immunoglobulin variable region genes from murine and human lymphoma cells and cell lines 1787
A Doenecke, E-L Winnacker & M Hallek
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A novel nested-PCR strategy for the detection of rearranged immunoglobulin heavy-chain genes in B cell tumors 1793
C Voena, M Ladetto, M Astolfi, D Provan, JG Gribben, M Boccadoro, A Pileri & P Corradini
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